[Avodah] Yehoshua and Yehonasan

[Micha Berger]

The niqud we see in siddurim for the sheim Havayah is that of sheim
Adnus, with the minor alteration of putting a sheva under the yud
instead of a chataf patach. (Not sure if that's because the printer
thought that a chataf patach under a yud looks weird, or because it
would widen the word -- a sheva fits under the yud better.) This is
standard practice for q'ri ukesiv, to place the niqud for the q'ri.

BUT, if the vowels of the first two letters weren't sheva and cholam,
why would Yehoshua and Yehonasan as they are?

That's assuming, of course, that the suffix version is more likely
to be modified: Yoshiyahu, Eliyahu....

-Micha

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